About NASJA
The sport of ski joring began several hundred years ago in Scandinavian countries as a
way to travel during the long winters. Laplander's skied on Nordic skis holding the reins
attached to reindeer. In the mid 1950's, ski joring found its way to North America, where
ranchers attached a long rope to the saddle horn of a horse that was ridden at high
speeds down a long straight-away. Currently, the sport of equestrian ski joring has
become a highly specialized competitive sport, where competitors must navigate a
course of jumps, gates and sometime spear rings. Competitive ski joring competitions
are currently taking place in over 5 states in the USA, and in several countries worldwide.
In some parts of the world, skiers are pulled behind dogs, mules and snowmobiles.
Whatever the means, the sport of ski joring is growing rapidly, and is just as much fun for
spectators as it is for competitors.
On April 24th, 1999, directors from almost every major ski joring organization in the
Country, rendezvoused in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to begin a process that would change
the sport of ski joring forever. After several follow-up meetings, the North American Ski
Joring Association (NASJA) was developed. For the first time in history, equestrian ski
joring became a sanctioned sport!
NASJA was conceived because of a very basic need to consolidate existing ski joring
races into a circuit where competitors can earn points that go toward a National
Champion Award. By developing criteria that all NASJA sanctioned events use as
guidelines, each competitor will have an equal opportunity at becoming the official
National Ski Joring Champion.
Earning NASJA points is simple: The Championship is based on a point structure from
daily runs at sanctioned races. The points from daily runs at the sanctioned races will be
added to the competitor's cumulative total. The NASJA member with the most points
earned at sanctioned races throughout the season will be crowned the National Ski
Joring Champion at an awards ceremony held immediately following the final day of
racing.
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